Jotee Pershâd was the native banker who, during the height of the Mutiny, victualled the Fort of Agra and saved the credit, if not the lives, of the members of the Government of the North-West Provinces.
FOOTNOTES:
[29] Now Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough, V.C., K.C.B.
[30] "Red and Blue "—the Army and Navy. The tune is The British Grenadiers.
[31] A lakh is 100,000, so that, at the exchange of the day, the amount of cash captured was £306,250.
[32] One pie is half a farthing.
[33] Pigs.